home sweet... wha?
After battling comment spam for going on three years...and realizing it was highly unlikely that I'd ever get around to upgrading movabletype...and receiving a not-so-nicely-worded notice that our...
View ArticleScooters, Vacation, Fall
Stretch this out. Shake the dearth of creativity from your, your what, boots, brow, bones. Or, stop writing, stop holding a guitar in your hands. Start wearing more ties, getting more shoeshines, and...
View ArticleWhat's Going On?
I just watched a special on Marvin Gaye. Phenomenal. Why has everyone been keeping this a this from me? Great beard, great voice, great drug addiction, great googly moogly dad what are you doing with...
View ArticleFathering
I just watched Inception with my wife and I wish that I had some 'plumbing the depths of the subconscious' comment to offer, but I don't. I saw an interview once with Christopher Nolan (the writer cum...
View ArticleOTTTM 1
On the train this morning a gray haired lady in the seat across the aisle from me pulled what was certainly a Werther's Original out of her purse and popped it into her mouth, which got me to thinking:...
View ArticleOTTTM2
On the train this morning I saw a good friend that I have not seen in a few months. We took a writing class together once, we get along, we respect each other, and so, when I asked her to recommend a...
View ArticleThe bedroom furniture
I am sure that lots of people alive in the universe have bought, buy, and will buy bedroom furniture without involving any of the following: guilt, self-doubt, teeth-gnashing, hand-wringing, poling...
View ArticleGet a New Brain and Then Go to Bed.
I can barely remember any of my successes, but my failures stay with me like burrito stink on my beard. What evolutionary purpose is this trick of the mind serving? Is it trying to encourage me not to...
View ArticleBefore Breakfast
This morning I was laying in bed reading DFW's speech to Kenyon College in Ohio. I put the book down and said to my wife: "You know, the thing with business schools is that the only lesson taught is to...
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